Project log 31/10/13

Today, I have been filming all day at various locations for my music video, such as: Georgina's home, Elmbridge close, the alley-way near Coteford Infant school, The Fairway restaurant and more. I have completed filming all of the narrative shots for my music video which I am so pleased about, and now I only have to film my performance shots of Georgina in the woods, which will be done on Monday since both me and Georgina have half-days on this day. Since returning home today, I have also created a picture location video on Windows Movie Maker, as I took many photos of the locations today. I uploaded this to YouTube and embedded it onto my blog. I feel as if today was a really productive, successful day. Below are some photos of me filming today.

Furthermore, here is also a photo of the notes I created before I began filming. I produced these notes so that I was clear and organised on how I wanted today to be structured:

Production process of my album advert SO FAR

Production Process of Album advert SO FAR

This is the process I have reported on the production of my album advert so far. I have created this on a Powerpoint document, and decided to add the date on a new slide of each time I make changes to the advert so that the examiner can properly monitor my progress and see how far I have gotten. I have also added and described the draft of my album poster. It is almost like a mini diary, where I explain the changes I make along the way and why I have made them. I have also added the initial draft of my digipak so my intentions are clear. 
Along the way I have added a lot to this document as of course, I have been making changes to my album advert and a lot of progress consistently, so I have made sure that this is up to date.

Video mood board

I have already created a picture mood board, however, looking back I decided that I wanted to improve on my mood board and create a video version instead. So, I downloaded several pop music videos which I believed held many typical pop conventions, through a site called "www.keepvid.com", imported them onto Adobe Premiere Pro, downloaded an MP3 of my music video song "Guns and Horses" by Ellie Goulding, downloaded a few more images of outfits and images I thought fitted in with my music video, and put them all together in one. I made sure to cut and edit each music video into the most interesting parts and made it switch from one to another, so it looked interesting and eye-catching. Overall I think this is a successful mood board as it portrays all of the aspects and conventions I believe convey "pop" as a whole and those that I would like to adapt into my own music video.

Structure & shot ideas for music video

This is a shot idea document I have created on Microsoft Word. It is not an official descriptive shot list or storyboard, however since completely changing the concept ideas for my music video I gathered I should start creating some brief draft ideas for the structure of my music video and the shots that are going to be in it. Of course I will create an official shot list soon once I am 100% sure on what shots I am using at what times. However, so getting down these brief shot ideas has really helped me progress because I now feel a lot more organised and head-clear in what I am doing in my music video and how it will be structured.

Project 24/10/13

Project log 18/10/13

Transcript:

This is my project log for the 18th October 2013. Today I've just basically been doing a lot of my research tasks, and yesterday I was off school ill so I've just basically been using my time wisely to finish off my research tasks and I've managed to finish all of them so I'm really pleased about that as it means I can now get ahead with my music video. I've completed my risk assessment which was quite a helpful  task because it helped me establish all of the different health and safety issues I might have with my music video and how I can prevent these from happening. Also I've done an analysis of a previous A2 music video, so that's just basically made me look at different ways in which students have made their music videos successful and I have analysed Roberto's, so that was quite helpful. I have finally uploaded my storyboard also, but I've basically changed all of my ideas for my music video now so it means that I'm going to have to re-do my storyboard again at some point, but I have uploaded this original storyboard. The new ideas I have for my music video are that it's still going to be half narrative, half performance-based and it's still going to be the same song. But I'm just going to use my actress walking through the woods and then she'll pick up different props that will be in her pathway, and each time she picks up a prop it will merge into a flashback that relates to the prop. The narrative part will basically be "5 stages of a relationship", and it will be her previous relationship with her ex-boyfriend. It will show flashbacks of each stage, e.g the heartbreak stage, the comfortable stage, the nervous/excited/early stage, and each prop will link to each stage. However, the audience will not know until the end that the props are actually a figure of the girl's imagination because she is experiencing almost post-trauma from her break-up as she is heartbroken. So that is my idea which is going to be quite hard to do, but I think it will work if I put a lot of work into it. I have also done voki creations of my actors that I'm going to be using, so I've basically just done a brief outline of what sort of people my actors are and things like that just to give the audience an insight. I have also done the "influence of music genre" task. I have re-done my lyric annotations because I felt as if my previous lyric annotations were not as great as they could be, so I have re-done them on a word document so that they look a lot better. Also I have realised that my picture mood-board that I completed quite a while ago isn't really that great, it could have a lot more work done to it, so I've started creating a mood board video instead, which is being created on Adobe Premiere Pro. I've completed this but there's been a few technical difficulties with that because it's not exporting so I'm going to have to ask the teacher about that. Also, I have added alterations to quite a lot of my previous tasks because obviously I have changed quite a lot of my ideas now to a completely different concept of my music video, so of course I need to inform the examiner that there's been a lot of changes and what changes have been made.

I also filmed on Wednesday and I got several first shots for my narrative done for Georgina and Matt. The majority of the shots were done in Georgina's room, so I basically almost finished the "first stage" of the relationship, which was the nervous/excited stage of the relationship. This is where I filmed shots of her getting ready, throwing clothes around, doing her make-up and things like this. I also filmed the "first time they met" and went on a date together. Georgina has a bar in her back garden so I filmed them in the bar together, but I used a certain angle so that it looked professional. I attempted to film that but the camera ran out of battery so I will have to continue that soon. However I am quite pleased with the shots I have filmed so far and I plan on continuing to film hopefully next Wednesday because that's the next time Matt has off work, so hopefully I can get the majority of my filming done then. Then on the performing-side of my music video, I will be doing a lot of them shots with just Georgina so that she does not get distracted by Matt, and I will most likely be filming them next week some time.

Influences of the pop genre

Influences of Pop Music

This is a powerpoint I have created on explaining the influences of pop music. I explained why I chose this genre for my music video, artists of this genre, a brief outline of the pop genre's history and how it began, the influences of pop, and what made the pop genre come along in the early 1900s. Creating this powerpoint/completing this task was very beneficial for me because it gave me a deeper insight into the history of pop which I did not know a lot about before, and how it can effect its audience which was very interesting.